Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 298, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122584
Keywords
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA); Circular bioeconomy; Recycling; Downstream processing; Sustainability
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [A4984]
- Canada Research Chair
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Research insight into the technical challenges of bioplastics production has revealed their confoundedness in their niche markets and struggles to enter the mainstream. There is an increasing problem of waste disposal and high cost of pure substrates in polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production. This has led to the future need of upgrading the waste streams from different industries into the role of feedstocks for production of PHA. The review covers the latest developments in using wastes and surplus materials for PHA production. In addition to inexpensive carbon sources, efficient upstream and downstream processes and recycling of waste streams within the process are required to maintain the circularity in the entire process. A view on the link between circular bioeconomy and PHA production process covering the techno-economic, life cycle assessment and environmental aspects has also been provided. Furthermore, the future perspectives related to the topic have also been discussed.
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